Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Like prophecy will be found in the volume now given to the public, redolent of such genius, wit, and poetic inspiration as in their fair flowing give promise of a rich inheritage and abundant fruitage in coming years." It is, as George Herbert said: "A box where sweets compacted lie;" and, what Herbert could not helped have helped noticing had he seen it, - a very pretty...
When we come to consider feats of strength and agility, and to compare as far as possible those performed now and in earlier times, the advantage seems to lie with the moderns. There are really no definite accounts of what the ancient Greeks and Romans were able to do. There are many mythical ones, and even when there are any that may possibly be statements of facts, there is nothing to gauge what they are really worth. We have a little more knowledge of what was done in the middle ages, but not much. For instance, King Teutobach...
...Clyde, 3dThe Goddess of Truth, a young person in scanty drapery who cannot tell a lie...
...yard dash appears to lie between the same men, though S. G. Wells, L. S., Harvard, is also a fast man at this distance. He is expected to take the quarter-mile with A. Coit, '87, of Yale, or J. F. McGuire, '90, second...
...with the Yale men there could also meet the Harvard rivals in the boats, Blaikie and Loring, and the massive Simmons and Dana, and their plucky associates, these men would give the lie, with their broad chests and clear eyes and ruddy cheeks, to the calumny that college boating makes old young men and wears the heart...